Millie, a Jack Russell-Whippet had resisted efforts by Police, Firefighters, and coastguard members to bring her back to safety from the mudflats that would soon be submerged by the incoming tide. As the situation became more desperate, the rescuers had…
A special Customs Drone Team has been set up in the Netherlands to fight drug smuggling and other crimes in the port of Rotterdam. Dutch customs are increasingly using drones to monitor port areas and coastal regions. This not only…
Outfitted with thermal cameras, spotlights, loudspeakers, and radio handsets, drones revolutionize Search and Rescue operations in Scotland, in the United Kingdom.
A big snowstorm hit northern Virginia this week causing widespread outages in the state. Now Dominion Energy employees are using drones to help to restore power to the residents.
Since 2016, the Toronto Police drone program used unmanned aircraft successfully to document accident scenes, monitor protests, find missing people, and more. The police department now has 24 licensed pilots and uses 16 police drones. Toronto police drone program is…
A 71-year-old man from Sweden who suffered a heart attack while clearing snow at the end of last year owes his life to the deployment of a DJI Matrice 600 with an automated external defibrillator (AED) on board. It is…
A thermal drone from the Bedford Fire Department located two missing hikers on Sharp Top Mountain in Virginia on Christmas day. The thermal camera on the drone allowed the fire department to quickly find the lost people.
SPH Engineering, a Latvian engineering business, has created a system that enables the entirely autonomous collecting of water samples using a drone. The concept is built around a customized DJI M300 RTK. The Latvian Center for Environment, Geology, and Meteorology…
Students of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany have developed and tested a rescue drone with a defibrillator so that cardiac arrest victims can be helped faster.
After 200 successful flights, the Winston County Sheriff’s Department drone is saving both lives and money. The police drone has only been in use for one year and already the sheriff feels it is a game-changer for his organization in…
During the Second World War, more than 250 Dutch resistance fighters were executed on the Waalsdorpervlakte, an area in between Wassenaar and The Hague in The Netherlands. It’s possible that not all bodies were discovered after the war. New research,…
Avy, a Dutch drone manufacturer, has launched an enhanced version of its Aera drone, with a greater flying range and the potential to deliver up to three kilograms of medical products. Avy is also releasing the Drone Response Network, a…